This nine-page letter written from Arthur H. Harris in Monroe, Louisiana, to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville is a conscious political treatise. The author is advocating and justifiying the secession of Louisiana at the upcoming...

Letter from Robert A. Rutledge to Mary Minerva Rutledge concerning the climate and his living conditions, provisions, and financial situation. He attempts to dissuade his father from visiting him at the camp but expresses his weariness of the war...

Pvt. William Burton, Co. F, 2nd Ky. Cav., USA, wrote his parents James and Elizabeth Burton from Camp Nevin in Kentucky on stationery bearing an image of Maj. Gen. George McClellan. He sent $10 home with Thomas Minor and said that he would try to...

On the first day of the year 1865 LVF is very down in her mood. She believes that the weather is becoming colder than it was when she married & came to McMinnville. Mollie has made a wreath of evergreens to place on Cap Spurlock's grave as it is...

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the qualified voters at the first election for any of the County Officers.
Section 3. There shall be a treasurer or Treasurers and a Comptroller of the Treasury appointed for the State, by the joint vote of both Houses of the General...

shall appoint their Aids; the Brigadiers General shall appoint their Brigade
Majors, and the Commanding Officers of Regiments their Adjutants and Quarter Masters [i.e. Quartermasters].
Sect. 6th The Captains & Subalterns of the Cavalry shall be...

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Sec 3. There shall be a Treasurer or Treasurers appointed for the State, by the joint vote
of both Houses of the general Assembly, who shall hold his or their offices for two years.
Sec 4. The election of all officers, and the filling of...

Three photographs and one document on page. Document was written by George Puryear and is a chronology of his military service from the date he volunteered until he joined the 95th Aero Squadron. Top left: Nieuport 28 fighter bearing the insignia...